24 Tweets On Nuclear War To Help You Laugh Through This Anxiety
Sarcasm is survival. (God help us all.)
By Carla Herreria
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Even at the world’s end, the Twitter community comes through.
There’s no doubt: People around the world are feeling pretty worried right now.
President Donald Trump threatened North Korea Tuesday with “fire and fury” in response to reports that the isolated nation had escalated its nuclear arms capability ― with the U.S. now possibly within its reach. Hours later, the North said it was “carefully examining” a plan to strike the U.S. island territory of Guam in the Western Pacific.
All this within 24 hours, giving people a chance to turn to the one sure salvation: The sarcastic, self-deprecating peanut gallery of Twitter.
Like church, meditation or that morning trip to the bathroom, Twitter is once again a reliable source of relief from the anxiety that plagues us during these troubling times.
Amid all the escalating war talk, at least we know that we can depend on Twitter to make the end of the world feel as sarcastic as possible, in 140 characters or fewer.
Read the hilarious tweets below, if only to save yourself from panic-crying.
Do you think anyone has mentioned to North Korea that they’re supposed to take Trump seriously but not literally?
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 9, 2017
please pray for president trump! which could literally mean anything! truly whatever outcome is in your heart! pray for that!
— joe mande (@JoeMande) August 9, 2017
You know what would reduce the threat of nuclear war with North Korea? A fully-staffed State Department that actually cared about diplomacy.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 8, 2017
Trump crawls out of bunker and surveys the flatten radioactive landscape that was D.C.
“Well, time for Infrastructure Week”
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 8, 2017
I hope Kim Jong Un doesn’t say anything about Hillary winning the popular vote.
— Qwerty Jones (@QwertyJones3) August 9, 2017
I wonder how many more times I can masturbate before the world ends.
— Steve Agee (
Me trying to laugh on North Korea then realizing that MF is crazy and might actually do it pic.twitter.com/gL9JPU4eHk
— Taylor Owens (@Taylorjowens23) August 9, 2017
The good news is, none of us will be alive to read your hot takes on “what everyone gets wrong about nuclear fallout”
— Benari Poulten (@BenariLee) August 9, 2017
